日本道德教育与现代化关系的考察

日本道德教育与现代化的关系研究至少蕴含三个特点:第一,它是从现代化角度研究道德教育;第二,它是从道德教育角度研究现代化;第三,它是对日本的一种个案考察。而研究日本道德教育与现代化关系的意义或价值也就蕴含在这三个特点之中。首先,从现代化角度研究道德教育,有助于改变传统道德教育研究中历史研究和比较研究存在的严重不足,有利于多学科的研究方法和成果被更多地被引入道德教育研究领域,更主要的是可以给道德教育研究提供多学科整合的基础与焦点,使道德教育研究在新的融通与整合中产生质的飞跃。其次,从道德教育角度研究现代化,有助于获得对教育作用于现代化的方式及性质的全面和深刻的认识。再次,对具有一定的典型性和代表性的日本道德教育与现代化的关系进行考察,便于我们透过其特殊性获得某些关于道德教育与现代化关系的普遍性认识。

On the Significance of the Research on the Relationship between Japanese Moral Education and Modernization

The research on the relationship between Japanese moral education and modernization has at least three characteristics:it is a study of moral education from the angle of modernization;it is a study of modernization from the angle of moral education;it is a case study of Japan.The significance of research on the relationship between Japanese moral education and modernization lies in the three characteristics.Firstly,studying Japanese moral education from the angle of modernization contributes to the change of the weakness of comparative and historical studies in traditional moral education researches and will be conducive to multi-disciplinary methods and accomplishments being used in moral education researches,and can provide foundation and focus which can integrate multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods.Secondly,the study of modernization from the angle of moral education will be conducive to gaining an overall and deep understanding of the effects of education on modernization.Thirdly,the study of the relationship between Japanese moral education and modernization with certain typicality and representative will conduce to gaining some general understanding about relationship between moral education and modernization through the examination of its particularities.